"Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de> writes:
> Hello all,
> I had slight problems to upgrade to libc6-2.3.6-8 as this package did not want
> to install. Hereby I have a slight understanding problem. Can someone
> explain, what now is the correct way ?
>
> Short description:
>
> I have a chroot, as described on the debian-AMD64 site. There you wrote:
>
> "You also need a link to your 32bit linker in the /lib path. Change in to
> directory /lib and create a link to the 32bit linker library of your chroot:
> (The name of the 64bit linker is ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)"
>
> I did so, when I first installed this computer.
Don't do that. Just install ia32-libs (sarge) or libc6-i386 (etch/sid)
which contain the linker. You probably end up with them installed
anyway for some reason and then the link can only confuse matters.
> Now to upgrade libc6 I had to delete this link, otherwise I could not install
> the new libc6, and, now the link does not point any more
> to /var/chroot/sid-ia32/lib/libc-2.3.6 any more, but to /lib/libc-2.3.6-8.
I heard about the libc6 complaining with the manual linking but since
I never did that I never saw it myself. Using the ia32-libs or
libc6-i386 package has no such effect.
> Is this information on the AMD64-site deprecated ?
Just in needs of slight improvements.
> For your information, here the relevant links
>
> 4505604 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-03-12 19:57 ld-linux-so.2 ->
> ld-2.3.6.so
> 4505603 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-05-19 14:54
> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-2.3.6.so
> 4505759 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2006-05-02 09:28
> ld-lsb-x86-64.so.3 -> /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>
>
> I want to run 32-bit and 64-bit programs. How is the status now ?
>
> Is chroot still needed ? Should I use chroot any more because it is easier to
> manage ?
You can run 32bit programs with ia32-libs. But if you want to use
apt-get to install 32bit programs then you need a chroot. It depends
on what you want to do.
> Please help me to understand the policy after this.
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Hans
MfG
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